Improved bottle-lock



LEANDER LLeni/LAN, or HARRISBURG; PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 78,976, dated June 16, 1868.

IMPROVED BOTTLE-LOCK.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it'known that I, LEANDER LEHMAN, of'Harrisburg, `in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and improved Mode'ot' Locking and Corking Bottles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the aceompanying'drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. Y

The nature of my invention consists in providing the bottle with a. top made of brass or other material, which is locked upon the neck ofthe bottle by Ineensr of a band passing round the-neck, below the lip, which band is locked by a small screw-bolt, having a head fitted and shaped for and which can be opened only by e` 4key. This is done by means of a flange or lip extending o ut from the band a on three sides ot the nut, and

titting gloselyto each of these three sides, so that thenut cannot be turned, but remains fixed and stationary, or the thread for the screw-bolt may be cut in the projecting part of the band a, and the nut dispensed with.

' The lock is made water-tight by an India-rubber ring, whichis placed between the lock and bottle. This lock or-tp has a lid Working on a. hinge placed on top, inside of which' lid is aV small spring-lock, which, when thelid is pressed down, is fastened by a. catch on the top of the cap.- The bottle is made water-tight, further, by a rubber" plate being' fastened on the under side of the said lid, which ts down tight on the tcp ot' the cap. The lid is opened by a key, and locks itself by being pressed down shut.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl.v A deli-locking bottle-stopper, when' thev cover is secured by means of a springdock and `hasp, substantially as described.v

2. Securing the same to the bottle by means of the band a, the ends of Vivhich are fastened together bythe protected screw-blt g, in the manner described.

LEANDER LEHMAN.

Witnesses A. O. SMITH, H. E. SMITH. 

